Okay, let's see, how can I discuss last night's tech while still remaining decorous?

Okay, around 6.30 last night, Eastern time, did you hear a strange noise? Kind of like a giant plunger? You know, sort of a far-off sucking sound?

I think it must have been audible to my reader in Finland...

I went in to work yesterday, and since I had to be at tech at 6p, I more or less had to be at work when I more or less get there in the week, which means that I got up 15 minutes later than normal, which was not enough!

God, I needed to sleep in...I had a headache all day.

However, I did cut a massive swath through not only the Pile of Shame on my desk, but the Drawer of Shame as well, the place where I stuff really elderly things from the Pile of Shame when I'm going to be out of the office for a day or two and I don't want anyone to look through the Pile and see things that should have been dealt with in October.

And you know how I razed through so much stuff? Can you possibly guess? Why, by throwing out 90% of it, of course!

I did a whole bunch of stuff, don't get me wrong, but some things had been there so long that they had already been finished by other means, or that they didn't need to be done anymore, or it was so old that they probably think that we lost or forgot about it already, and if they really want it done they'll just send it again!

And The Raccoon will have to deal with it 'cause I'll be GONEGONEGONE!!!

heeheehee...

My crit week is over, and I got lots of great feedback. Last night I finally finished answering all of the crits, and here's a couple of things I said.

In response to Tracing's assertation that I am not always this light in life, so why can I not be more insightful on my page:

"Yada yada...Actually, I think that you come at my journal with a distinct disadvantage from knowing me in real life. I am, like everyone probably, very different depending on to whom I am speaking.

If I am talking to a single person with whom I am close friends, I can be very intimate and speak on a great deal of subjects close to my heart. If I am talking to a few people with whom I am close friends, I am less intimate than I am with one person, though I can still manage some. However, the bigger the group gets...

If I am with a large group of strangers and/or acquaintances, I am either silent or I'm riffing, and the Internet is, basically, a large group of strangers and/or acquaintances. I throw in the occasional intimacy, depending on how unhappy I am, but mostly I stay light. So there you go! You read my journal thinking that I can be like I am when I'm just with you, but it's not just you, you know?"

In response to Mike feeling that when he's reading an entry he's watching a performance:

"As you are! In acting class we had this thing called a private moment, and the purpose is to act in as un-self-conscious a manner as you would if you were in your room alone. But, continuing with the acting metaphor, you are NOT alone, and if you act EXACTLY the way that you do when you are alone, maybe you turn your back to the audience for 2/3 of the show, or maybe you mumble, or your hair is in your face. This doesn't matter a damn at home, but it does when you are doing a show, trying to tell a story to the audience. So, when I write in my journal I do realize that there is an audience and that I have a responsibility to them as well as to the story. I'm not certain that I'm making sense.

Okay. acting. As an actor, I am very technical, not emotional. I don't need to feel what the character feels, I need to make the audience feel--that's the important thing. If I feel it too, that's a plus, but it isn't necessary for a good performance. In fact, if you rely on feeling it, and you only feel it half the time then half of the audiences are cheated."

The funniest thing on SNL last night was that commercial parody:

"If you want to save 4% on long distance, dial 10-10-1776-5-28-1830-242-3-316-68-22, then the area code and number!" "Really? All I have to do is dial 10-10-1776-5-28-1830-242-3-316-68-22?"

Honestly, every time they said that string of numbers, which must have been about twenty times, it just got funnier and funnier!

Today's horoscope:
Now's the time to exercise your power. Fight for justice. Sign petitions or write letters for causes you care about. Demonstrate.

One year ago today:
"What are these? I wanted cha-cha heels!"

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